Workers don’t care if they live elsewhere
WHERE have all our locally based workers gone? I remember many years ago anybody who worked for the council lived in the area and took pride in their work, because they, in most cases, enjoyed the benefits from that work. Bedworth and Nuneaton had its own garden nursery supply and grew its own plants for all the flowerbeds and park areas. These have now all closed down and we now rely on outside contractors supplying them. None of the work is done by local men or firms. It is all done and supplied by outside the area contractors and builders. I remember the old council gang of workers who used to maintain the roads with the old steamrollers. They took pride in their work repairing the roads and potholes which lasted much longer than our modern day repair men. Every year they have an army of men and lorries with a very large, specialised machine taking days to do a few potholes which, after 12 months, want re-doing. All that is needed is two men with a wheelbarrow and a heap of tar with a small roller to do the repair. We had our own painters and decorators, any other work was done by local firms or men. Now, all the work is contracted to outside firms which turns out to be cheap and nasty workmanship which has to be done twice. The council does not care; after all it is only the council taxpayers footing the bill. Even the refuse collectors emptying the wheelie bins are all from Coventry. The council and Warwickshire County Council is not fit for purpose. We need someone with wisdom, care and understanding to handle and spend our money.
Nuneaton has now become a deserted, desperate town full of empty shops, cafes, bookmakers, charity shops and beggars. It has the worst planned congested traffic system in the country.
A town with no hope or future. M Burch Nuneaton
House must reject May’s fantasy deal
FOLLOWING the staggeringly flatulent Skripal debate in the House, where no one single original thought emerged, nor was much unhappy ‘evidence’ questioned by the entire clan/peer group, it’s a brave – or is it unwise? – pundit indeed who will actually state that the figures show the House must inevitably reject May’s fantasy over the EU.
She and some of the media is launching a whole range of attempted seductions to lead into the debate and, if the expenses scandal showed us anything, it is that these people love lucre and position so much that they would sew pockets inside their own flesh if they could.
It’s long been clear that what has always been needed is an entirely different negotiating team following a General Election and certainly not a second referendum.
The dangers of a hard Brexit without transitional period should not be permitted to blackmail the British people or MPs into accepting what amounts to a horrific sell-out, over which the nation would repent at leisure but be unable to prevent because, as the best legal advice clarifies (Martin Howe QC), the proposals include abandonment of our freedom to leave at some future date.
Britain under May would have nailed herself to the mast. Bill Haymes Spon End
Legal verdict on Brexit agreement
ANYONE who campaigned for Britain to leave the EU will be deeply disappointed by the EU Withdrawal Agreement.
There is general consent in the media that the Agreement represents a betrayal of the aspirations of the Leave voting public.
The Agreement means the EU, not the UK, is taking back control.
Though the media has provided excellent general coverage of the Agreement, the legal implications of the Agreement have not been covered in detail.
Coventry Telegraph readers might enjoy Martin Howe’s excellent legal verdict which clinically destroys the credibility of the Agreement.
He cites a Swiss legal jurist who states the Agreement is similar to the legal agreements imposed by the EU on the the former Soviet states of Moldova, Georgia and the Ukraine, in their association agreements with the EU (Spectator, November 24, 2018).
He says in bewilderment: “It is absolutely unbelievable that a country like the UK, which was the first country to accept independent courts, would subject itself to this.”
Perhaps this is why Theresa May is refusing to publish the full legal advice on the Agreement. Martin Judge Lime Tree Park
Please to see piece on osteoporosis
I WAS pleased to see the article on osteoporosis in the Coventry Telegraph (Nov 27).
It was very comprehensive, including risk factors and prevention where possible through lifestyle changes.
I would like to point out that there is a local Coventry Osteoporosis Support Group on hand to assist, as well as the National Osteoporosis Society (www.nos.org.uk). Information on the group’s activities can be found via the NOS website.
I feel that the role of the group is especially important, as there is no local Fracture Liaison Service (FLS) in Coventry. Mary Roberts Coventry Support Group (NOS) Longford